They are jostled from the sidewalks by dusky guards, marching four abreast.

They were halted, in rude and sullen tones, by Negro sentinels." The task of the Federal forces was not easy.

The garrisons were not large enough nor numerous enough to keep order in the absence of civil government.

The commanders in the South asked in vain for cavalry to police the rural districts.

Much of the disorder, violence, and incendiarism attributed at the time to lawless soldiers appeared later to be due to discharged soldiers and others pretending to be soldiers in order to carry out schemes of robbery.